the unraveling

I've been stricken with a bout of knitting paralysis.  I'm not sure exactly what happened, but I made a significant error in sizing the hourglass sweater.  It's going to be too small.  I've been frozen between the thought of undoing two skeins worth of stitches and the idea that it just might work if I forge ahead.  Since this discovery, the project has languished in the knitting bag that somehow gets pushed a bit further under the couch each day.  Countless times I've measured up the green knitted piece to a sweater with a really good fit hoping for a spark to help me decide how to proceed.

And then I read Liesl's post.  The very same sweater.  The very same problem.  But she finished it and had then resolved to take it apart and knit it again.  I knew that if she could pull out a year's worth of knitting, that I could easily undo a month's worth.  And so, thanks to a little deconstructive inspiration, the unraveling has begun.